Only A Child

January 6, 2014

I am only a child

Inexperienced

Clueless to the dangers outside

Society claims I should know better

I am too young to know

Many are the times I want to cry

Cry in my parents' loving arms

But that is frowned upon

We can't cry

We are no longer children

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